mangle
فسد
definition
verb
the car was mangled almost beyond recognition
severely mutilate, disfigure, or damage by cutting, tearing, or crushing.
press or squeeze with a mangle.
noun
At seven in the evening they broke off to run the hotel linen through the mangle .
a large machine for ironing sheets or other fabrics, usually when they are damp, using heated rollers.
translation of 'mangle'
verb
بتر,
جفف,
فسد,
تلف,
شوه
noun
مجففة
example
The first continuous process involved squeezing a ribbon of molten glass through two hot rollers, similar to an old 'mangle' .
Mum used a 'mangle' and a washboard so when the washing machine arrived it was a big moment.
At seven in the evening they broke off to run the hotel linen through the 'mangle' .
And, of course, I got to remembering Monday wash days at home, clouds of steam billowing, the washboard clattering and the 'mangle' creaking, lines of gleaming white washing hanging out to dry.
On washing day it was my job to wring out the washing by turning the 'mangle' for her.
The sheets were not ironed but were put through a 'mangle' - like a large wringer - which flattened them.
‘If I wasn't at school, I had to turn the handle on the 'mangle' while mum put the sheets through,’ Peter recalls.
She does not have a TV and her washing machine is an archaic model involving rubber hoses and a handle-operated 'mangle' .
One has to be a certain age to remember the soggy, steamy awfulness that was the drudgery of washdays when it involved galvanised tubs, poss-sticks and 'mangles' .
Mr Gibson's mum would get up at five in the morning to do the washing in the communal washhouse complete with 'mangles' .
Will this solidify the widespread view that the he is a cynical 'mangler' of morality?
Most bizarrely, he even 'mangles' an extremely well-known line of Orwell's, his tirade about ‘every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer’ and so on.
Humphrys has now let his rage against the army of word 'manglers' off the leash.
This blast was so powerful, it left storefronts 'mangled' , blew out car windows and sent metal and glass flying in all directions.
Knowingly or not, these critics are 'mangling' the facts to prove a debatable point and in the process damaging their own cause.
There was a shared washroom that contained 'mangles' , and once a week Kilroy-Silk went to the local baths.
She quickly set to work, chopping vegetables into little 'mangled' bits and depositing the mess into a huge steel pot.
At least we can say that it is not the only group creatively 'mangling' the language.
For each national-anthem 'mangler' , there was only one rendition standing between glory and defeat.
We used to have twin tubs and 'mangles' , but we don't any more.
One of the top offenders, according to critics, is the former German captain, who regularly 'mangles' his sentences.
She was 'mangling' Whitney Houston songs like no one had ever done before.
The smooth shell of the car was 'mangled' beyond recognition.
The dais was in the form of a human whose skeleton was 'mangled' beyond recognition.
How do you get one of these things off without 'mangling' my daughter's clothes?
I don't think she liked the way I was 'mangling' her language.
Stories of men given to hitting their women weren't unheard of in my family, but I associated them with my grandparents' generation, like chenille tablecloths or 'mangles' or the music hall itself.
For decades now, our pop stars have been sending us political messages that are less mixed than 'mangled' beyond reason.
Kristy had been badly bruised, had cuts all over her body, and her armour had been 'mangled' almost beyond repair.
He would tear his hair as they 'mangled' the beautiful old German words.
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